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Support teaching and learning with the best proven educational practices. This go-to resource guides teachers to use evidence-based best practices to strengthen assessment for learning and plan quality instruction. It also supports administrators as they monitor the implementation of effective instruction.

Best Practices Wheel

The Best Practices Wheel provides easy access to information that builds formative assessment literacy and helps teachers partner with students, inspiring them to take responsibility for their own learning. It also highlights the importance of technology integration in the 21st-century classroom. The wheel features content on both sides.

Side one covers Formative Assessment, including information about the teacher’s role in guiding students to think and communicate about their learning, the student’s responsibility in the learning process, pre-assessment and progress checks that can be used, questions for student reflection, and strategies for teacher feedback.

Side two addresses Learning-Focused Instruction, with probing questions to ask students; suggestions for building vocabulary; critical thinking prompts; and strategies to help students self-assess, understand, and demonstrate how their success will be measured.

I love every part of this tool! The classroom Best Practices Educator Wheel is easy to use when planning lessons and implementing formative assessment. The Learning-Focused side helps you plan meaningful lessons, and the Formative Assessment side helps you plan for formative assessment. This side also takes you through the steps of formative assessment--all the way to teacher feedback and student reflection--the two pieces most often overlooked or skipped.

"full of informative techniques and strategies"

★★★★☆

Teacher

The Best Practices Wheel is laid out very well, and it's full of informative techniques and strategies. I like the way everything is categorized. The product is brightly colored, which is appealing. I like that it has a wide variety of questions and learning techniques for students and teachers.

"most helpful"

★★★★☆

Teacher

The teacher feedback and student reflection topics on the Formative Assessment side helped me move toward true formative assessment which drives instruction. The probing questions on the Learning-Focused Instruction side were most helpful when meeting with small groups or individuals as they helped me ask deeper thinking questions about topics at hand. I used the student self-assessment topic to hold students accountable for their learning.

"take learning to the next level"

★★★★☆

Teacher

I would recommend this tool to any teacher who wants to take learning to the next level through ongoing formative assessment. It will also help develop our 21st century students into thoughtful citizens of tomorrow.

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